Deer and Rabbit are beautiful creatures that looks so harmless yet, they shouldn’t be taken for granted. Deer eat roughly 5 pounds of greens every day on average, and they’ll eat almost any plant if they’re hungry enough, which happens frequently during summer droughts and winter when there’s little to eat in their native habitat: the forests.
Besides, the margins of your garden typically provide ideal hiding locations for rabbits, so they prefer to eat plants along the edges rather than in the middle. To deter rabbits from entering your garden in the first place, remove anything near the edges, such as brush piles or tall grasses.
You can’t ignore the signals of rabbit activity even if you haven’t seen a rabbit hopping about your yard. Plants nibbled or damaged, tree bark chewed off at ground level, young or recently planted plant leaves and stems eaten, and rabbit droppings are all evidence of rabbits in your yard.
In this article, I’ll explain 4 home-made recipes for home-made for deterring Deer and Rabbit. So let’s first start with Deer repellent home-made recipe.
Deer Repellent Home-made Recipes
The following are deer repellent home-made recipes for your use:
Deer repellent: 1st Recipe
Mix one whole egg with a quarter cup of water until thoroughly mixed. Fill a pump bottle with the mixture and spray it on your plants. Because the egg adheres to the leaves, this deterrent will endure light rainfall.
Deer repellen: 2nd Recipe
Spray one tablespoon of liquid dish detergent with one ounce of hot sauce in one quart of water immediately on plants that have been nibbled by deer.
Deer repellen: 3rd recipe
Mix the following components in a 1 gallon container, such as a milk jug, for larger volume applications:
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1 gallon of water
- 1 egg, whole
- 1 tbsp. cooking oil + 1 tbsp. liquid detergent
Finally, fill a pump bottle with the mixture and spray it on your plants.
Deer repellen: 4th recipe
Stop using the bathroom and simply urinate all over the plants that deer prefer to eat if you live out in the middle of nowhere, where “country leaks” will go unnoticed. It may sound absurd, but it works! Keep an eye out for mosquitos:-)
Rabbit Repellent Home-made Recipes
The following are Rabbit repellent home-made recipes for your use.
Rabbit home-made repellent: 1st recipe
Garlic powder combined with hot pepper or chile can be used to make a repellant. Add some water after thoroughly mixing these ingredients, and set aside for two to three days.
After that, strain the mixture and add a few drops of liquid dish soap. You may now use a spray bottle to spray this solution on your vegetable and flower gardens’ plants.
Rabbit home-made repellent: 2nd recipe
Cayenne peppers, tabasco sauce, dishwashing soap, and water can be used to make another homemade repellant. You can also mix in some Elmer’s glue and spray the solution on the plants’ leaves.
Rabbit home-made repellent: 3rd recipe
Rabbits have a good sense of smell and loathe the smells of egg and garlic in particular. To defend your garden against rabbits, make a mixture of egg, milk, garlic, tabasco sauce, and liquid dishwashing soap.
Rabbit home-made repellent: 4th recipe
Occasionally, sprinkling chili powder on the base of the plants can be as effective in keeping rabbits away from your garden plants.
Conclusion
I hope you find this article helpful. I would like to hear from you. So, let me know if you have any questions about how to make home-made deer and rabbit repellent.
References
- “How To Make Homemade Deer & Rabbit Repellents” retrieved from here
- “How To: Make and Use Your Own Deer Repellent” retrieved from here
- “How To Make Deer Repellent THAT WORKS GREAT” retrieved from here